Publicación:

Análisis comparativo del cumplimiento de los compromisos del Acuerdo de París en el MERCOSUR y la Alianza del Pacífico

Resumen

Nowadays, Climate Change is a worldwide problem. A lot of countries have discussed about it, since the first United Nations Marco Convention on Climate Change, which was carried out in 1992. Since then, The Kyoto Protocol (1997) and multiple agreements were signed by different countries and also several annual conventions are carry out in order to preserve the environment. On December 2015 was executed The Paris Climate Conference (COP 21), the Paris Agreement was signed by 195 countries, the main objective of the agreement is to strengthen the global response to the threat of Climate Change. The previous agreement, was signed by the countries that are part of the Southern Common Market integration agreements (MERCOSUR) and the Pacific Alliance, reaching a compromise of generating and perfecting regulations in order to promote the care and preservation of the environment in the region. Therefore, the objective of this study is to analyze in a comparative way the compliance of the Paris’s agreements signed in 2015, in MERCOSUR and in the Pacific Alliance. To achieve this objective, the study will present the characteristics of the integration agreements, Next, it will identify the evolution of the regulatory framework used by MERCOSUR and the Pacific Alliance in favor of the environment. And last, it will analyze the regulatory framework implemented by each country in the region in order to fulfill the commitments made in the Paris Agreement.